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I am currently carrying out a study on ticks and want your help with tick sightings. Please let me know if you find any ticks on you or your pets this spring. I would need the location information, i.e. possible location where the tick(s) was picked up. The locations could be in Brandon or outside Brandon but it has to be in Manitoba.  
 
Thank you.

Along with your personal study of ticks found on animals, the following is also interesting.  
 
There's a FREE app for your phone (App Store or Google Play) in Manitoba, as well as several other Canadian Provinces who've endorsed and promoted the etick app. Through the app, people can immediately submit a proper photo of a found tick (there's a photographic guide) which an expert can identify for you or your pets safety. Human or animal tick photo submissions are welcomed by this group.  
 
https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=51097&posted=2021-04-12  
 
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/the-new-program-helping-manitobans-quickly-identify-ticks-1.5384438  
 
It's really important to track tick population and identification in the Province of Manitoba to see where the 'hot pockets' are. Being a relatively new app to certain Provinces like Mb. and Sk., the more people that contribute to it, the more valuable Canadian data will be collected as it rolls out to each Province of Canada. It is already in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and now Manitoba.  
 
The transmission of Lyme Disease does happen in Manitoba with certain ticks and if left untreated immediately at the onset, can be extremely debilitating with joint, heart and nervous system complications for life, not to mention frustrations with antiquated testing methods (ELISA test) which hopefully can be improved with awareness and people grasping the seriousness of this tick carrying disease that is in Canada.  
 
It used to be that a tick had to be kept (dead or preferably still alive) with a damp cotton ball in a pill bottle and mailed to Winnipeg for identification and/or testing.  
 
This app makes it easy - Link is below.  
 
Please educate yourself. Ticks aren't only in the woods and treed forests and tall grasses in our Prairie region, but can be in your urban lawn grass or trees and they can latch onto any host walking by. They can be totally visible/ felt or they can be the size of a pin-head in the nymph stage. A bulls-eye rash sometimes happens around a bite, but not always. Some ticks don't carry Lyme, but others do. Know how to remove them safely so they don't spew their vector carrying guts back into your body. That's why this app is important to know about and it's free.  
 
Check your pets always.  
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/lyme-disease-ticks-dogs-veterinarians-manitoba-1.5998360  
 
Here is the link to the App:  
 
https://www.etick.ca/

These are some tick photos in Manitoba submitted to https://www.etick.ca/en to give an idea of size/scale and type of tick found and where they were found.  
 
You can see how tiny some of them are.  
https://www.etick.ca/etickapp/en/ticks/public/photo?limit=:20&page=:10&province_id=:4  
 
Edited by michelle, 2021-05-13 12:00:30

Thanks, Michelle for this information.

Took my three dogs to ACC North Hill campus. There is a ravine area. One dog had at least 8 ticks, other one had 3 to 4, and the last dog had 2. They looked like regular dog ticks to me. Also found some ticks on them from walking through the fields up there but nothing when we stick to the buildings.

Thank you for letting me know.

The deer ticks come out first, then a few weeks later the wood ticks come. We have not nearly the numbers as previous years. But, both here on our acreage west of Brandon in the Kemnay area. Expecting the wood ticks to be around until the end of June like normal. Then, the deer ticks will start up again in the end of Sept, beginning of October.

Hello,  
My dog had a tick on her yesterday after our walk. We went walking on the path behind the animal bay homes. The south side of the train tracks parallel to wheat city golf course

Hello, could I come collect ticks from your acreage? Please leave a response and I'll contact you.  
 
Thank you.

My mom who has now passed always said ticks really liked her.  
 
If there was one tick in Manitoba it would find her.  
 
She always had ticks to remove during the season and she was only around Douglas or Brandon.

Hi, where in Douglas did she find them?